Ennis has been awarded Ireland's Tidiest Town for 2021.
The Co Clare town beat the likes of Cobh in Co Cork, Offaly village Geashill and Abbeleix in Co Laois for the top prize at the RDS in Dublin.
Ennis previously took home the top prize in 2005.
A total of 847 entries were submitted into this year's competition, after the annual contest was cancelled last year due to the pandemic.
This year's winners included:
- Geashill, Co Offaly awarded Ireland’s Tidiest Village
- Abbeyleix, Co Laois awarded Ireland’s Tidiest Small Town
- Cobh, Cork South awarded Ireland’s Tidiest Large Town
- Ennis, Co Clare awarded Ireland's Tidiest Large Urban Centre
Glaslough TidyTowns in Co Monaghan was named as the inaugural winner of the Young Persons in Tidy Towns award.
Chairperson of the Ennis Tidy Towns Committee, Cormac McCarthy, says the pandemic allowed them to come up with new strategies to keep the town clean.
He said: "We developed a series of sustainable development goal factsheets, which were circulated as part of the national Tidy Towns newsletter.
"We worked with the local Coder Dojo, where kids were coding Tidy Towns games.
"It allowed us to do a very different style of project - but I think as everyone knows, in Tidy Towns you can't take your foot off the pedal, even during a pandemic."
Minister Heather Humphreys congratulated Ennis and the other winners.
She said: “It has not been easy for TidyTowns groups during what has been an unprecedented period.
“Like all sections of society, the pandemic has prohibited us from participating in the things we enjoy within our own communities.
“I want to commend the hundreds of groups and thousands of volunteers who, in the face of adversity, put their community first and continued to make their areas better places to live and work and to visit, all the while, adhering to social distancing and public health guidelines."
